[WikiEN-l] Saying no to new unreferenced BLPs

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phoebe ayers wrote:
> I am all in favor of seeing if we can change people's behavior in
> subtle ways; it will take many solutions all working together to fix
> blp's.
> 
> -- phoebe
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A very simple and non-controversial start might be to ask New Page 
patrolers, when they see a new unsourced BLP (or indeed any unsourced 
article) to put a polite message on the creator's talk page saying

"Thanks for your article [XYZ]. Wikipedia asks that all material be 
verifiable from reliable sources, it is important that readers and other 
users can check what's been writen. You don't seem to have told us the 
source you used for this article. Please can you edit the article to 
indicate what the source is? (Click here for help if you don't know 
how.) Unsourced material about living people may be removed if challenged."

That doesn't bite or threaten any newbies, although if established 
editors keep getting these on their talk pages, threats might be warranted.